Lucas Hiring Writers For 'Star Wars'

Posted by Mike D'Alonzo - Monday, October 15, 2007 11:50 AM

George Lucas is coming to Los Angeles this week to meet with potential writers for his new Star Wars live-action television series. His goal, apparently, is to get a number of 'significant writers' to each work on an episode, 13 in all, for the first season of the show. He might even hire writers from other countries to work on the series, which would provide a refreshingly non-American slant to the series.

This, also, means that there might be a good shot at us getting some real dialogue, as opposed to the Achilles Heel of the Star Wars universe, which is that Lucas can't write believable things to put in his characters' mouths. Heh. Heh heh.

IGN.com: Lucas Meeting with Potential Star Wars Writers

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Posted by arod95 - Monday, October 15, 2007 12:36 PM

Oh thank god. It is getting harder and harder to be a die hard star wars fan...I'm glad to see that Lucas might not F*ck this up.

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Posted by altizar - Monday, October 15, 2007 12:45 PM

This has the potential to be so great or suck so bad. . .

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Posted by vferg - Monday, October 15, 2007 1:06 PM

This still has a huge potential to fail. Ide say 85% chance of failing. TV and Movies are a completely different medians. Someone who knows how to make movies doesnt necessarily know how to make a winning TV show because the ingrediants needed to make a great show or movie are completely different. Even if he hires all these good writers it still doesnt mean that the way the writers portray the episode and the way its directed are going to be the same. Theres a lot of things that I can see going completely wrong with this series and if you ask me he really shouldnt do it. I love star wars but I dont see myself enjoying this once it comes out. Maybe it will shock me though.

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Posted by trkydk - Monday, October 15, 2007 1:16 PM

sweet .. hope this leads to another starwars movie .. but i too agree this better not flop cause next gen needs to know the greatness of this movie series

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Posted by MutantEnemyMTL - Monday, October 15, 2007 1:24 PM

The Star Wars universe is pretty big so hopefully they can find some good stories to tell.

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Posted by hetman - Monday, October 15, 2007 1:37 PM

Yea I agree hopefully someone besides lucas writes the dialogue. Episode 1,2 and 3 are horrible because of the dialogue. Anakin"I hate sand, Sand gets everyhwere" Lucas is such a lame ass writter. It sux.

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Posted by greeneyes59 - Monday, October 15, 2007 1:59 PM

Not interested. The source material is just full of crap now. Young Boba, Gungans, Ani Vader, Clone Troopers, midiclorines, podracing, Death Star built by bug people. It's all so sucky now.

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Posted by agent666tnt - Monday, October 15, 2007 4:13 PM

QT should do this

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Posted by 1mikeg - Monday, October 15, 2007 4:19 PM

Now they just have to take Lucas out of the producing, directing, and casting process all will be well. Just throw your money at George, that's all we want you for anymore. The above poster is right too, this still has a good chance of failing as movies a good TV show make not.

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Posted by SSPPowell - Monday, October 15, 2007 4:41 PM

Fail.

First Month:
Budget = $1 000 000 000
Viewers = 12 000 000

Second Month:
Budget = $2 000 000 000
Viewers = 1

Thine hath been warned.

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Posted by halophile - Monday, October 15, 2007 4:53 PM

I agree with greeneyes. The Star Wars lore is all jacked up. If we could just erase what we found out about the force (midiclorians) and the clones etc. That being said, I'm still hoping for the best!

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Posted by sdc10 - Monday, October 15, 2007 7:17 PM

actually midichlorians make sense if you think about it, they explain why offspring of jedi are more likely to be able to use the force, otherwise it was more about luck

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Posted by coolhandchris - Monday, October 15, 2007 7:29 PM

@greeneyes59:You really have me questioning my fandom to this series. lol

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Posted by Necrotix - Monday, October 15, 2007 8:35 PM

Ya, it's been bastardized to the nth degree--I agree totally greeneyes.

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Posted by SkyAnimal (BANNED) - Tuesday, October 16, 2007 9:45 AM

It's too bad I don't know more about the Star Wars universe, because I would offer to join this project.

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Posted by shoked - Tuesday, October 16, 2007 10:53 AM

great. but he's still going to be hiring the writers so we'll see.

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Posted by TheAlliedCentralAxis - Tuesday, October 16, 2007 6:43 PM

And here I thought George Lucas was gonna come up with some original content. After seeing another cheap happy meal product with the Star Wars logo on it, I thought to myself "maybe it's time to come up with some new stuff George". That Star Wars cow must be a fossil by now and they're starting to suck at the marrow. Oh well, as long as the SW virgins continue to feed the beast, bad sci-fi movies with animals will continue to prosper.
Seriously ladies and gentlemen... well, gentlemen only, ep. 4 was the only good one, ep. 5 and 6 was just the same story (Empire builds the Death Star AGAIN) and eps. 1-3 sucked ass.

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Posted by TheAlliedCentralAxis - Tuesday, October 16, 2007 6:46 PM

Except for the cantina scene... That 'alien' with a vagina for a mouth really weirds me out!

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